Comment & Opinion - Columnists Archives

06 November 2020
Shreya Bhattacharya explores the enduring challenges to charter cities projects. In 2009, Nobel Prize laureate and former Chief Economist of the World Bank Paul Romer …
04 November 2020
This Q&A is an edited version of an interview with Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN Women, which took place ahead of…
04 November 2020
Christian van Nieuwerburgh with some useful advice for those of us about to re-enter lockdown. Already experiencing pandemic fatigue, many of us feel ill-prepared for another…
02 November 2020
Corruption is considered one of the main contributors to Africa’s development challenges, but less is known about the determinants of corruption and why the levels of corruption…
30 October 2020
Johannes Urpelainen calls on the winner of the US elections to commit to leading efforts to tackle climate change. Joe Biden’s climate change and environmental justice plan calls…
26 October 2020
Fraternal Enemies: Israel and the Gulf Monarchies by Clive Jones and Yoel Guzansky. London: Hurst, 2020. 297 pp., £45 hardcover 9781787382121 Clive Jones and Yoel Guzansky’s joint…
23 October 2020
This interview was conducted by the Global Governance Futures – Robert Bosch Foundation Multilateral Dialogues, which brings together young professionals to look ahead 10 years…
22 October 2020
This past year has shown many governments that they are not as resilient as they thought they were when facing global shocks. COVID-19 has especially exposed the fragility of our…
20 October 2020
Once the Kremlin is persuaded that Joe Biden will become the US’s next president, it will go for the jugular. Already today, not election manipulation, but triggering civil…
15 October 2020
This interview was conducted by the Global Governance Futures – Robert Bosch Foundation Multilateral Dialogues, which brings together young professionals to look ahead 10 years…